hawk• It swoops low, hawking, across the hillside, over the fort and out into the mists of Corve Dale.• Most people know that they hawk and feed on other flies.• The crowd milled around chatting and exchangingtips, hawking and spitting, slurpingtea and placing bets.• Gregarious, flocks often hawking for flying insects and spiralling up to performaerobatics.• Bob Hope, for instance, came on the J. C. Penney shopping channel to hawk his new book.• A man on the corner was hawking T-shirts and souvenirs.• Contraceptives are hawked through the printmedia and on billboards.From Longman Business Dictionaryhawkhawk1 /hɔːkhɒːk/ noun [countable]a politician or official who believes in using force or firm action when dealing with problems, rather than a more peacefulapproachMr George has a reputation as a hawk on inflation.He has always been a deficit hawk (=a politician who wants to reduce the amount of money the government owes). → comparedove —hawkish adjectivehawkish political leadershawkhawk2 verb [transitive]1journalism to sellan ex-athlete who now hawks exercise equipment2disapproving to try to make people interested in something or to try to make them buy somethingHe’s been on every chat show hawking his new movie.→ See Verb table